Intron Health builds clinical speech-recognition technology tailored to African accents and medical vocabulary, and can integrate with existing EMRs. Its algorithm is trained on 3.5 million audio clips (16,000 hours) from over 18,000 contributors across 29 countries and 288 accents, primarily from healthcare practitioners. The tool is live in 30 hospitals across five markets, including deployments in Kenya and Nigeria, and has been shown to cut radiology-result wait times in one West African hospital from 48 hours to 20 minutes. The company plans technical improvements including better noise cancellation, low-bandwidth performance, multi-speaker transcription and text-to-speech, and aims to add decision-support/clinical-intelligence tools for prescriptions and lab tests. Intron was launched in 2020 and is also engaged in speech-research partnerships with Google Research, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Digital Square at PATH to evaluate LLMs across 15 countries. The startup raised a $1.6 million pre-seed round to support product development and expansion.

Total raised

$2M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jul 2024